Collar-supporter.



FRANK E. FARNHAM, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

COLLAR-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug'. 18, 1908.

Application led April 6, 1908. Serial No. 425,431.

-To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. FARNHAM, a citizen of the United States,residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCollar-Supporters, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Like reference numerals indicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my combined bar and lining plates for collarsupporters. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the cupped-up blank to formthe ornamental front of my improved lace pin. Fig. 3 is a centrallongitudinal section of a modified form of my said lace pin. Fig. 4 is aview on an enlarged scale showing said bar and one of the lining platesin side elevation, secured in position within one of said lace pins,whose edges have been rolled over into contact therewith, said lace pinbeing represented as seen in cross section on line of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 isa similar View on the same enlarged scale, showing a modified form ofthe bar as secured in position upon the modified 'form of lace pinillustrated in Fig. 3, said lace pin being shown in cross section online z z of Fig. 3 and the lining plate in section on a line coincidenttherewith. Fig'. 6 is a plan view of the under side of my improvedcollar supporter.

My invention relates to collar supporters, adapted to extendtransversely of the collar of lace or other soft material for a ladysdress; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts thereof as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings 1 represents a rigid bar, of any ornamental or othershape desired, at each end of which bar is an integral T-shaped liningplate 2, having its two longitudinal edges preferably convexed slightly,as shown in Fig. 1. Each of the plates 2 may have the two rivet holes 3.

In Fig. 2 is illustrated the cupped-up blank of the ornamental front ofa lace pin, such as is shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 8 of Letters Patent ofthe United States No. 783,627, issued to me and dated February 28,19.05, reference thereto being had. As seen in Fig. 2 of the presentapplication said blank is cupped or shaped in an elliptical form 4,having the flanges 5, 6 and 6, with the recess 7 between the anges 6 and6, and also provided with the pin catch 8 and the two hinge members orear pieces 9. Each ear piece 9 has a pivot hole 10, and a pivot 11 (Fig.4) extending through both ear pieces 9, in the pivot holes 10l thereof,and engages with the head 12 of a pin tongue 13, the point of said pintongue being engageable with the pin catch 8, as more fully described inmy said Letters Patent.

The collar supporter is attached to the collar, transversely thereof, bymeans of the pin tongues 13 of the lace pins, which are inserted throughthe collar at the top and bottom of the same, respectively.

The parts shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are assembled as illustrated in Fig. 4.Each lining plate 2 is laid in the concavity of one of said cuppedornamental fronts 4, between the flange 5 thereof on one side and theflanges 6, 6 on the opposite side. Each end of vthe bar 1, adjacent to alining plate 2, integral therewith, extends through the recess 7 of thelace pin 4, as shown in Figs. 4 and 6. The flanges 5, 6 and 6 are thenrolled over by any suitable tool to lie in a semi-circular bend 5 and 6with the edges thereof in snug contact with the exposed surface of theback of the lining plates 2, as shown in Figs. 4 and 6.

In Fig. 6 the pin tongue 13 is omitted in order to show more distinctlythe relation of the lining plates 2 to the rolled flanges 5 and 6 abovedescribed.

The innermost ends of the rolled flanges 6 abut the edges of the bar 1and prevent lateral movement of the lace pins 4 and bar 1 in respect toeach other, and so constitute a rigid connection of said parts. Thisintegral construction of the lining plates and the bar of a collarsupporter is shown in Fig. 10 of my pending appli-cation (Serial No.416,748)

for Letters Patent of the United Statesfiled February 19, 1908.

In Figs. 3 and 5 is shown a modified form of the device, in which thecupped and iianged ornamental front 14 has two integral rivets 15 formedon the interior surface thereof, which are of such size and diameter asto pass through the rivet holes 3 of the adjacent lining plate 16. Thisengagement is illustrated in Fig. 5 and the lining plate, in such caseis preferably bent, asshown at 17, so as to extend in a plane below thatvof the flanges 18. The outer end of the rivet 15 is hammered overtoform a rivet head in contact with the lining plate 16. The differencebetween the two constructions is that in Fig. 4 the bar 1 andlining'plates 2 are held and fastened in the lace pin 4 by the rolledflanges 5, 6 and 6 but in Fig. 5 they are held by the heading of therivets'15 in theholes 3 of the plates 2. Therefore, in the case of theconstruction shown in Fig. 4, the rivet holes 2 in the plates 2 aredispensed with.

I claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters.Patent:-V

1. The combination oftWo concavo-conveX lace pins each having a pintongue; a bar 10 and two lining plates integral with said bar andextending angularly therefrom at opposite ends, each of which plates isadapted to be seated in the concavity of one of said lace pins; andmeans for fastening said lining 15 plates within said lace pins,respectively.

2. In a collar supporter, the combination of two cupped ornamental frontplates 4 each having the integral langes 5, 6 and 6 with the recess 7between the langes 6 and 6 a lining plate 2 held in each cupped plate 420 byv the rolled bends of said flanges; a bar 1 integral with both theiiningpates zand having a width equal to the length ofthe recesses 7 andengaged in both said recesses; and a pin tongue 13 pivotally mountedupon 25 the rear surfaceofeach of said plates 4.

In testimony whereof I a'HiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK E.' FARNHAM. Witnesses:

THOMAS N. BIOKNELL, HOWARD A. LAMPREY.

